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CESET is delighted to welcome Shirley to its team through the University of Sheffield’s Evidencing Impact Internship scheme, which aims to help students develop their employability skills by working within the University on a project-based placement.

Shirley is a current student at The University of Sheffield studying MSc Management. She holds a Bachelor’s Honours degree in Economics from the University of Pretoria, South Africa. 

In September CESET researcher Harshit visited different community energy projects in Malawi to gain a deeper understanding of the landscape of CES projects. This is the third blog in the series. You can read the first here and the second here. 

In September 2023, CESET researcher Dr. Harshit Vallecha (Loughborough University) carried out field visits to different projects in Malawi. This blog is the first of three and provides the summary of sites visited in central region of Malawi.

Associação Moçambicana de Energias Renováveis have recently produced a report that explores the gaps and opportunities in the national legislation of Mozambique to propose an additional package of incentives to stimulate the operators in the off-grid sub sector to adhere to the Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Seal (GESIS) norm. 

Our CESET co-investigators Carlos Shenga and Lorraine Howe of the Centre for Research on Governance and Development (CPGD) in Maputo have published a Portuguese language policy brief ‘Oportunidades para Absorver Projectos Comunitários Energéticos’ on Mozambique's off-grid energy regulation. The policy brief provides an overview of a study, funded by The University of Sheffield's Impact Accelerator Account, that assessed the opportunities and challenges for the uptake of off-grid energy projects in the country.

Our CESET team have contributed chapters to the new ‘Handbook on Energy Justice’ edited by Stefan Bouzarovski et al (2023) and published by Elgar.

Vanesa Castán Broto and Enora Robin have just published a new special issue in the Journal of Landscape Research, which includes an editorial piece 'Embracing change in infrastructure landscapes' 

CESET project in collaboration with Mzuzu University, organized a vocational training targeting female technicians from various fields of energy. The training was funded by the ESRC Impact Accelerator Account as part of the Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Seal project, which aims to address the unequal power relations experienced by people on the grounds of gender, ability, location, ethnicity and language and agency when accessing energy resources.

Our CESET Member Mulualem G. Gebreslassie (Mekelle University) has presented a paper entitled “The role of community energy to facilitate energy transitions in Ethiopia, Malawi, and Mozambique” in the Global Energy Meet 2023 organised by the United Scientific Group at Boston from March 06-10, 2023. The talk was held virtually on the 5^thday of the conference on the 10^th of March 2023.